Alsea, OR
How exposed is Alsea to wildfire?
USFS scores Alsea at the 48th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 110 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Alsea's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 49th percentile nationally.
Alsea's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 70.9% of Alsea's 110 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 29.1% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Alsea ranks
Alsea scores 48th nationally and 45th within Oregon — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Alsea ranks 16,524 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,633 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 233 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Alsea
Alsea's 48th-percentile score lands in Oregon, the only two states requiring a wildfire disclosure at sale. Oregon's own hazard map feeds directly into that disclosure requirement. The disclosure-law guide covers what it requires.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 70.9% of Alsea's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Alsea's 48th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Alsea, see the exposure-zones guide.